I’d rather imagine a woman president completely out of fucks to give about the press and purveyors of conventional wisdom who just steps out every day making long overdue changes that make the world a better place. Now hiring. Inquire within.

“There are other ways to tell if an investment is sustainable than if it makes money for a rich person.” Whether it makes money for a rich person should be the last thing we consider unless, of course, we ignore it altogether. I’ve long suspected that the primary purpose ...

Trying to get to yes? Reminds of the FBI Kavanaugh fig leaf investigation that ran over a weekend where they invited people with information to call in to a bit bucket.

Boldness counts. Send the State Police to find and evaluate him. Or just declare the seat vacant and start the replacement process. Put the burden of proof onto his handlers.

Maybe it’s just me, but with the pending confirmation of Blanche as AG, the GOP senate seems to be laying down a marker that there is no limit to the level of corruption they will tolerate. I think they would put Jeffery Dahmer on the Supreme Court if Trump asked them to.

No knock on Sculer or on unions generally, but if our aspirations don’t rise above getting a sustainable spot on the treadmill, we’re selling ourselves short. Full citizenship is so much more. The bankers should be trembling in their boots when they see us coming.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones

ICE’s brutal authoritarian behavior is the real deal for the prols. The wealthy elites enabling it are under pressure too, but it’s different. These are people who already have a fuck-ton of money that are giving in so they can keep getting more money than they’ll ever need.

You’ll have better luck building a new governing vision if you get honest about what is wrong with the one we have. It’s not a matter of convincing people you see them. You need to clearly articulate what good governing vision looks like and it’s way different than the current model.

It’s one of those moments where a person can’t help but miss Hunter Thompson, but whatever. Perhaps the best way to remember Lindsey is, “Who?”.

They say lightening never strikes in the same place twice, but there are lots of available targets.

Andy Beshear, absent any substantial evidence to the contrary, should just declare McConnell’s seat vacant and begin the steps to replace him. If McConnell is still functionally alive, that should flush him out.

“Automated Customer Service” is an oxymoron created either by actual morons or by thoughtless greedy bastards pretending to be actual morons, but at least it increases GDP so we can all pretend to feel good about the economy.

This is funny until the end where it becomes amazing.

The market not only fails as a moral guide but also as a system for producing public good. The implicitly Darwinian model of competition, while it does have some merit for fostering innovation, is incredibly wasteful. /1

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Dollars are cheap and easy. The real cost cannot be measured in dollars.

Mitch McConnell isn't coming back & establishment democrats should be banging down the door to replace him like he did on SCOTUS! Be as arrogant as he was,be as pushy as he was ,quit being snow-white perfect! Fight,fight, fight! Now,now, now! Rigor Tortiose wasn't nice,stop hiding! OMG!

“Trying to distract us From the Epstein files You gas and beat and murder us Protecting pedophiles Let’s turn the screws… … America get ready Midterms are at hand We gotta stick together folks And vote to save this land All you fascists bound to lose…” @therealbettemidler.bsky.social #NoKings

Is there anyone else that thinks talking about government as the employer of last resort is backwards? Government should be the employer of first resort, and once everybody is fed, clothed, housed and provided with healthcare etc., then if anyone wants to add quality of life touches, go for it.

"250 years into this experiment, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson might very well be the exemplar of what this nation can be today because of the generations of people who learned from all that it wasn’t and were willing to change."

Read @feinig.bsky.social's book, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" for this and more. www.sup.org/books/sociol...

"If your AI company can't survive without stealing art and writing then your company deserves to fail"

This egregious behavior is now such an established pattern that I don’t think after-the-fact sanctions are enough. Some DOJ folks need to spend some time in jail. (I know, it’s like trying to pull yourself in a wagon. I don’t expect it will happen, just that it should. )

In God we do deeply trust ‘Cause he’s always fair and he’s just But our big birthday bash Has been traded for cash So he’s made sure the State Fair’s a bust

There is an absurd edge case that would bring fairness considerations into play and the right has used that possibility combined with the propaganda-manufactured ignorance of the reality to push this whole stupid anti trans thing. It certainly not for me to tell someone else what to care about, /1

The Pope should get that emblazoned on one of his hats. On the reverse side he could put, “How do you like me now?”

A new Star Chamber. We need to make sure that the ineffectiveness of the justice system against the uber-wealthy is not something that they can count on.

Everybody should clearly understand by now that the market is primarily about the efficient allocation of capital over the long run so there is no need for them to be responding to the day-to-day events of the news cycle. :)

“We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the knowledge of our most experienced engineers” Regular folks, on the other hand, have been paying attention to the feckless incompetence of American management class, and have seen the AI hype more clearly for what it is.

If you wanted a demonstration project to point out how stupid the conceptual basis of the federal budgeting process is, this would be hard to beat. #MMT

With this in mind, what maximalist goals would you boost? What is under emphasized, generally speaking, in left wing political discourse. To me it’s reform of the banking system. We’re all born with obligations, but debt as a universal natural state seems so broken.

Seems right. The knock on George Bailey was that he was spending his life playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic eaters.

I support UBI but am uncomfortable using AI as a justification for it. It cedes ground on the inevitability of AI which should not be ceded. AI is not the wonder it is claimed to be. The true cost of AI driven mass unemployment is a massive uptick in mediocrity and institutionalized stupidity.

As long as we’re engaging from time to time in the “Is he dead yet?” game, does anybody know what’s going on with Mitch McConnell?

They should consider skipping the avocado toast or the $5 cup of coffee Maybe get a roommate or attend a financial literacy class???

“A first step for any progressive leader is to confront the ways economic policy has been insulated from democratic scrutiny.” I think and hope that there is a winning political message there, but there is certainly a necessary message that cannot win yet.

A further point that should go into the mix: We’re not sending $300B to Iran because our man-baby leader got outfoxed or for no particular reason at all. We need to do it because it’s the right thing to do. We got drunk and trashed our neighbor’s house. We need to try to put it right. (We can never)

It’s suggestive to me that every country in the world has mostly kind generous people but most of the leaders of those same countries find something to squabble about or someone to demonize. Why are we doing this?

More public banking, please.

Republicans are horrible. Send me money and I’ll fight to defeat them. James Carville says it’s ok. Really.

One thing I resent about Trump is the huge deficit that he’s piling up with respect to wicked thoughts. It’s going to be years before we can tell someone what we really think of them and meanwhile lots of people who desperately deserve a dressing down are going to slide by with a mild rebuke.

💯 IOW: Now that we’ve completely lost the bubble and smashed our sextant and compass to smithereens, we have no idea where we are headed, have no reason to suspect that it is someplace worthwhile, and are beginning to notice that the ride is a little bumpy. “I’d turn back if I were you.”

@greenbackbetter.bsky.social Is there a statistic that tracks how much of the money that pours into the stock market is flowing in via auto pilot (401K etc), in either actual dollars or as a percentage?

My wife just shared this with me: www.instagram.com/reel/DZI1xcV...

It doesn’t seem that risky to me at this point to boost Steyer to try to push Hilton off of the ballot. I think I’m going for it.

AI chief explains that AI will be cosmically stupid enough in another 18 months to put all AI chiefs out to pasture.